Word.ws English Dictionary

ecclesiolatry

ecclesiolatry noun: excessive dedication to the church as an institution, rather than to the religion it serves.

Noun

ecclesiolatry (uncountable)

  1. Excessive dedication to the church as an institution, rather than to the religion it serves.

Origin of ecclesiolatry

From ecclesio- + -latry.

Questions about ecclesiolatry

What does ecclesiolatry mean?
Ecclesiolatry means excessive dedication to the church as an institution, rather than to the religion it serves.
What part of speech is ecclesiolatry?
Ecclesiolatry is a noun.

Words near ecclesiolatry in the dictionary

  1. ecclesiocracy
  2. ecclesiocrat
  3. ecclesiocratic
  4. ecclesiolater
  5. ecclesiolaters
  6. ecclesiolatry
  7. ecclesiologic
  8. ecclesiological
  9. ecclesiologically
  10. ecclesiologies
  11. ecclesiologist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ecclesiolatry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ecclesiolatry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ecclesiolatry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.